Now, in a new interview with Elle, the 24-year-old reveals what was going through her mind when she addressed the inter-governmental assembly for the first time.

“I was very nervous,” she tells the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Lorraine Candy. "It wasn’t an easy thing for me to do. It felt like: ‘Am I going to have lunch with these people, or am I going to be eaten? Am I the lunch?’”

The actress explains why she opted to take on a role that would prove to be so nerve-racking.

“I have really grappled with [fame] emotionally,” she reveals. “And, in a funny way, doing this is my way of making sense of the fame, of using it. I have found a way to channel it towards something else, which makes it so much more manageable for me. And this is something I really believe in.”

The actress also explains that feminism is not some kind of ironclad belief system that she is trying to impose on anyone.

“Feminism is not here to dictate to you,” she says. “All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for president, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too."